This is where words dance with wine. "This spicy asparagus Tarzan swings jubilantly from palate to palate," reads the description of the Silvaner. "We wanted a different description for a change," says Eva Vollmer with typical understatement. Silvaner is often seen as old-fashioned and dusty, "we have to change that," she says resolutely.

With words and slogans, the 35-year-old winemaker is changing the perception of wine in her community—slogans on T-shirts, wine labels, and parking lot signs. And suddenly, wine is young and hip, exuding the atmosphere of esprit, entertainment, and the elegance of a balmy summer night.

Like last year's Scheurebe night, when Eva spent an entire evening celebrating the almost forgotten Rheinhessen grape variety with a gala dinner in her garden, attended by 250 enchanted guests. She calls her green backyard "My Garden of Eden," an 8,000-square-meter paradise with a small built-in vineyard. From here, the view stretches far into Rheinhessen, including modern wind turbines.

This is also the setting for Eva's famous wine picnics, where young and old, bankers from Frankfurt and locals from Ebersheim enjoy an after-work wine and a relaxed get-together. Eva calls these events "relaxed wine lounging" – it was precisely for these innovative wine experiences that she was awarded the Great Wine Capitals' Best of Wine Tourism Award in 2017.

It was exactly ten years ago when Eva started her winery in Mainz-Ebersheim, a rural suburb surrounded by fields and vineyards. Her parents had one of those typical mixed farms in Rheinhessen with a little bit of wine production, but Eva wanted more: a new winery, young, fresh, unspoiled, and without the burden of old wine labels or conventional ways of thinking—instead, with room for new ideas from day one. "It was a bombshell," says Eva.

The young winemaker had graduated from the renowned wine university in Geisenheim, even with a doctorate, and confidently named the new winery after herself: The "Weingut Eva Vollmer" is one of the few wineries named after a woman. The message was clear: here is a woman who doesn't do things by halves. Consequently, Eva immediately converted her 8.5 hectares of vineyards to organic farming, because "organic stands for quality," she says.

The prices between 8 and 9 euros per bottle are steep for Rheinhessen. "Not setting the price at three or four euros was already rebellious," she admits, but selling wines at low prices is crazy: "You can't build high-quality viticulture on that." Rebellious – that's another word that perfectly describes this winemaker.

Her white wines are radically elegant, highly mineral and intensely aromatic. "A pretty pear holds me hostage" is the description given to the Pinot Blanc, while "lively citrus aromas and a joyfully wiggling peach tail" await guests in the Riesling.

"The words, that's me," says Eva. Many wineries play with their names or use animals on the label, "we use individual talents." Her husband, a heating and plumbing engineer, built the new wine cellar, contributed his experience with live cooking, and added a winemaker's apprenticeship on top of that. Together, they built the new wine bar next to the terrace and named it "Kostbar" (Precious).

In this bar or on the lawn, experts like Stuart Pigott celebrate the new German wine miracle with a little help from Eva, who probably says things like no one will be banished from her Garden of Eden if they bite into an apple or drink one more glass of wine. "A winery that is so innovative and always coming up with new ideas has really shaken people up on a large scale," says Eva, "completely authentic, completely individual. Completely Eva." With that, she sets off for Zurich to sell more wine and come up with more new ideas. A sign remains in the parking lot that reads: "Illegally parked vehicles will be loaded with wine at the owner's expense."